The Boogey Man
Spooky synth music for the 1980 horror hit, the most successful film by indie director/former Fassbinder colleague Uli Lommel. The score was concocted by three California-based sound consultants under the name "Synthe-Sound-Trax" and sounds a bit like a cross between John Carpenter's Halloween and Colin Towns' Full Circle (which isn't surprising, since the opening of the movie apes the Carpenter film pretty closely). The film itself is a bizarre twist on the slasher formula with a possessed mirror shard compelling people to die in imaginative accidents, with one especially funny bit involving a car door. The score was independently released by the composer in a limited (1,000-unit) vinyl pressing shortly following the film's release (this comes from #867, for anyone who's counting) and remains an interesting example of early electronic horror music. New Download Link (FLAC/lossless)
posted by 7 Black Notes at 10:14 AM
16 Comments:
This is definitely the best of all imitation-John Carpenter synth scores.
Great soundtrack! Thank you very much!
Can't beat those '80s synth scores. Happy listening!
Sweet lord, I've literally been searching for this LP for maybe half a decade. Incredible, amazing.
Thanks a lot. Great Blog :) I put you in my link section :)
You was talking about the Full Circle OST by Colin Towns. Do you have it ? It's oop and it's great music. Could you post it ?
Yep, I have FULL CIRCLE -- truly incredible score. It'll probably be posted soon; can't believe they let that go out of print so long ago. Thanks for the link!
Whoah! This blog is superb. This is an excellent soundtrack! So great to be able to hear it after all these years. Keep up the great work!
awesome, thanks man...
Looks like this album was deleted during Rapid Share's hiccup a few weeks ago.
This is a brilliant score. It reminded me of the BBC Radio 2 series called Elastic Planet that was made in 1996. It was a comic radio show telling a long looping tale of coincidence and fate and it used the first half of track number 1 "The Boogey Man" as its opening and closing theme.
There was something that sent shivers up and down the spine whenever I heard it and the mystical, spacey sound was so apt for that themes of coincidence!
The rest of the score is wonderful too and hopefully I'll get a chance to see the film it actually came from soon!
Hi!
Link is dead. Any chance to see the great soundtrack reposted?
Could you please reupload.
I`ve been looking for this as it`s great.
Thanks
Hello this is monster.
I`ve been looking for this soundtrack ever since I first saw this film back in 1982, when we first had our video recorder.
This is so good.
Thank you very much.
Apologies for the anonymous post but having trouble with password.
New download link is posted.
did you say you have the soundtrack to "Full Circle?" if you do, could you post it? i couldn't find it
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